Disney
animation film, Pinocchio, adapted from the Italian writer carol ? Chloe di of
fairy tale, in the United States in 1940. In general, when interpreting fairy
tales, films are more or less adapted. Based on the social and cultural
background at that time, from the 1880's fairy tales to the 1940's animation,
what changes did Pinocchio experience? From the perspective of education and
social values, this paper probes into Pinocchio.

In
Chloe's adventures of Pinocchio, both the cricket and the lark play the role of
a preacher. For example, when the marionette let the cricket go, he always told
Pinocchio: "children leave home without listening to their parents.
They'll have bad luck in this world and sooner or later they'll regret
it." "Poor little fool! If you just want to have fun, you'll grow up
to be a real ass and people will laugh at you. Chloe's cricket was always an
adult, a constant moralizing role to Pinocchio. Similarly, in the Disney film
Pinocchio, the cricket is also the role of an indoctrinator. However, in the
Disney film Pinocchio, the cricket is not only a simple preacher, but also
Pinocchio's "conscience of action", who helps Pinocchio when he
encounters difficulties. For example, when Pinocchio was going to the theater
as an actor, jimny followed Pinocchio to the theater after his preaching
failed. After seeing Pinocchio's success, he left quietly. Meanwhile, he was
afraid that Pinocchio would return to the theater to find Pinocchio. For
example, after being humiliated by Pinocchio's companions on the happy island,
he left in anger. But when he saw the children turned into donkeys being sold,
he hurried to find Pinocchio and saved him from death. Finally, when the
cricket learned that Geppetto had been swallowed by the whale, he went with
Pinocchio to look for whales in the sea. Faced with all kinds of difficulties,
the cricket never abandoned Pinocchio and eventually rescued Geppetto, and the
family was reunited.

According
to Freud's "id", "ego" and "superego" theory, the
cricket plays the moral "superego" of Pinocchio. In the choice of
going to school and going to the theater, Pinocchio follows the "id",
taking happiness as the principle and wants to become an actor. As the
"conscience" exists, the cricket not only gives Pinocchio a moral
lecture, but also gives Pinocchio a great help in behavior. For example, he
tried every means to save Pinocchio from the cage and saved Pinocchio from the
"id". In the film, crickets are not only preachers, but also helpers
in behaviors. Children do not have the moral "conscience" yet, so
they cannot tell right from wrong and can only choose at will. This is the task
of adults or parents in the real world. Children are perceptual thinking, so
the task of adults is not only to help children judge right and wrong, but also
to help children in action. Faced with the growth of children, people realized
that simple preaching could not solve the problem, so they began to help
children face difficulties together and solve problems.

Whether
in Cody's fairy tales or in Disney's animated films, the subject of discipline
and indoctrination for children has not changed, but only the way and means of
indoctrination. In addition to the positive role in the movie the crickets in
pinot Joe's sermons, the fox and the cat the role of the two "bad
guys" also join to lecture, such as the fox and the cat is no longer in
the book in the movie "the lame and the blind" advised pinot Joe
don't read the fox and the cat: "you look at me, I will to stupid unexpectedly
want to read, the results make a leg is lame", "you look at me, I
will to stupid unexpectedly want to read, the results the are all blind
eye", but promised to say "the school is a noble place, if there is
no school, the society also don't know what will become." By teaching
children to watch movies in such a way, it seems to say to them, "look,
what a sacred thing it is to be able to read, how honored you are to be able to
go to such a noble place, so you should study hard." Not only that, but
the coachman also joined in the education of the children. In his deal with the
fox, he said, "a child who does not learn is a bad child." in the
film, the coachman also becomes a preacher. All of these plots, whether
positive and friendly crickets, foxes and carters as villains, convey to
children directly or indirectly the idea that children need to study well, read
well, and be disciplined by civilization. This education approach, which
combines indoctrination with entertainment, is more like a "sugar pill"
that looks as sweet as candy and full of beauty.

Generally
speaking, the bad guys do not want to accept the education of society to them,
they resist the domestication of social civilization to them, unless they go to
prison and accept another way of discipline of society. But what does it mean
when foxes and waggoners, the symbols of real-world villains, join the ranks of
education children? Should we criticize the illogic of movies? Or is it really
the case that society teaches children this way?